Census Report on Poverty
Rachel Black, a policy analyst in the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, looks at the new Census Bureau report showing a record number of Americans living below the poverty line.→...
View ArticleAmerica's Deepening Poverty Problem
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on theBrian Lehrer Show, Rachel...
View ArticleLack of the Safety Net: Homelessness and America's Tent Cities
The ripple effect of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis and a chronically sluggish economy have changed the face of poverty in America. Sections of the population who never previously utilized the...
View ArticleNYC’s Poverty Rate Goes Up for 3rd Straight Year
An estimated 74,000 more New Yorkers fell into poverty last year, according to U.S. Census figures released Thursday. It marks the third straight year that the poverty rate has ticked up in New York...
View ArticleBloomberg: Job Creation Key to Fighting Rising Poverty
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said job creation is key to help tamp down the city's swelling poverty numbers, and that the city has some of the strongest social safety net programs in the country."We are...
View ArticleU.N. Development Goals
John Hendra, assistant secretary-general at the UN Women and co-chair of the UN Development Group Millennium Development Goals Task Force, discusses the Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015...
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